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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Being in the habit of reading every word in every issue of your magazine, I begin to shrink from again encountering "potent." Why not vary it with "puissant...
...surely unnecessary for you to distinguish between a mother and a father swan by such terms as "pen"' and "cob" . . . and was it necessary for you to call the swanlets by such an ugly word as "cygnets...
...early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well-heeled, he was a generous entertainer. Quick of temper, he once threatened to "knock the hell" out of a Washington correspondent (Ray Tucker) who dared dispute his word. Quickly he was recognized as the most potent Big-Navy lobbyist in Washington. Whom or what he represented remained a mystery...
...Quickly word of the raid spread among Jews. The great gloom that had preceded Tisha B'Ab continued at this latest desecration. Leaders were indignant, pointed out that Great Britain had failed to maintain its protectorate...